[ecrea] cfchapters: Negotiating (In)Visibility: Managing Attention in the Digital Sphere

Subject: Negotiating (In)Visibility: Managing Attention in the Digital 
Sphere
VIII International Conference on Communication and Reality, Barcelona, 4 
– 5 June, 2015
Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations, Ramon 
Llull University
http://cicr.blanquerna.edu/en/presentation/

Deadline for abstracts: 22 November, 2014.

Please pass this message on to your department and to colleagues who may 
be interested in our conference.

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce that registration for your VIII International 
Conference on Communication and Reality, entitled Negotiating 
(In)Visibility: Managing Attention in the Digital Sphere is now in 
progress. The complete Call for Papers is posted in English, Spanish, 
and Catalan on our conference web site:

http://cicr.blanquerna.edu/en/presentation.

We invite you to submit individual abstracts and complete panel 
proposals, and to peruse further information posted there.



Media creation and media consumption have revolutionized the ways in 
which individuals and communities negotiate and manage visibility and 
attention in the digital mediascape. There are those who believe that 
this new context encourages open communication, transparency, learning, 
and human proximity. People who formerly could not make themselves heard 
or seen, or did not dare to, may now do so with no holds barred, 
unmediated by the traditional communication media.

Conversely, there are those who claim that the opinions and viewpoints 
that are given the greatest media exposure create the notorious spiral 
of silence by forging an erroneous belief in what is considered the 
majority opinion.

For our 2015 edition, themed Negotiating (In)Visibility: Managing 
Attention in the Digital Sphere, we welcome scholars, practitioners, and 
students to take sides in the controversy, shed new light on the 
on-going debate, and offer alternative, unorthodox, outside-the-box 
explorations of the issue, thus contributing to answering the question 
of whether the strategies and habits in which users of the digital 
public sphere currently perform attention-management ultimately leads to 
more visibility and plurality, or rather, more invisibility and uniformity.

We look forward to hearing from you and receiving your comments at 
(cicr /at/ blanquerna.url.edu).



Sincerely,



Klaus Zilles Ph.D.

Joan Cuenca Ph.D.



Facultat de Ciències de la Comunicació i Relacions Publiques Blanquerna

Universitat Ramon Llull

Valldonzella, 23

08001 Barcelona

tel: (34) 93 253 3108

fax: (34) 93 253 3123


(cicr /at/ blanquerna.url.edu)

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